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FIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID >PLAR, MONTANA PERMIT NO.
Fort 'Peck BBWO�ttfla
OWAPI
Poplar. Montana
Sioux/C V
VOL. 16 NO. 25
OCTOBER 17, 1985
Rehab Center naming, opening
WOLF POINT - The youth Rehab Center in Wolf Point will be dedicated with a new name on Thursday, October 17.
On Wednesday, October 16 the Tribal Executive Board went on record approving a new name for the center. It will be called the George Thompson Sr. Youth Center, named after the first juvenile judge on the Ft. Peck Reservation, according to Tribal Law and Order Committee Chairman Lyle Firemoon.
Firemoon said the Center's staff selected the name.
Acting director Calvin "Skip" Yellowrobe said the center officially started as a rehabilitation center for youth on October 2.
"We want to get out of detention immediately and work with the youth full time."
Yellowrobe said they have to work with the juvenile judge on changing the center from the confinement concept and stipulate treatment and counseling as soon as possible.
A meeting of various directors of human service programs was held October 2 at the center, located in Wolf Point north of U.S. highway 2 and Ft. Peck Housing Authority housing project.
Yellowrobe is acting director until a director is selected by the Tribal Board. The position is being advertised for the third time. To get the center operating so the
Per Cap payout date set
POPLAR�The Tribal Executive Board, in a regular meeting on Tuesay, October 15, set Monday, December 2 as the cutoff day for new enrollments to qualify for the December per capita payment.
The Tribal Board set the per capita payout date for Thursday, December 12.
On Dec. 2 all applications for enrollment that have been approved by the Tribes' Enrollment I Committee by that date will be able to receive a per cap in the amount of around $150.00 apiece.
All children born to tribal members who have not been enrolled-* into the Tribes should do so well
before December 2. Applications for enrollment can be picked up at the Enrollment Office located in the Tribal Building. The Tribes' Enrollment Committee, made up of Assiniboine and Sioux people, meet on all applications to determine eligibility. To be eligible to become an enrolled member of the Ft. Peck Tribes, the child must be one-fourth or more Assiniboine and/or Sioux blood born after the effective date of the Ordinance to any member of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, provided the child is a citizen of the United States at the time of the child's birth.
Absentee voting by local voters
POPLAR�The off reservation voters aren't the only ones who can vote by absentee ballot, said secretary-accountant Paula Stormy.
Those eligible voters who know � they will not be able to vote on Election Day can come to her office in the Tribal Office in Poplar and make a written request for an
absentee ballot.
Each request must contain a brief explanation why the voter cannot make it to the polls on Election Day.
Stormy will be taking requests for absentee ballots all next week, she said. Friday, October 25 is the last day to vote by absentee ballot at the tribal building, Stormy said.
POST 54 donates money to New Life Mission, which will be used to turn the electricity on in the building so it can be opened up to serve the people.
Mission gets donation
POPLAR � The New Life Mission was the recipient of a $300 donation from the Nathan Crazy Bull Post #54 on Friday, Oct. 11.
According to Eloise Garfield, chairwoman of the Mission's Board of Directors, the donation will be used to turn on the electrical power to the building located on Main street in Poplar.
The Mission was donated a two story building by Silas and Roberta Clincher, Poplar.
Ms. Garfield said the inside sheetrocking is completed on the first floor, and an electrician has been checking out the wiring.
Ms. Garfield said that mostly, New Life church people have been helping in the renovation of the building, including: John Garfield, Abe Chopper, Eldred Lambert, Junior Blackhoop, Marleen
Lambert, plus others that have dropped by.
The Mission is still looking for cash and food donations. A plumber's help is also needed, said Ms. Garfield, and bedding such as blankets, sheets, pillows and mattresses.
The Mission will be serving a Thanksgiving dinner to those in need, said Ms. Garfield.
"Most important", said Ms. Garfield, "is to have the church people to uphold the New Life Mission in their prayers."
The New Life Mission is the result of a dream of Ms. Garfield. She felt such a burden for the Indian alcoholics who live on the streets. She felt the need to have a place set up for the street people to sleep, eat, and a place to go to fellowship.
Tribes wouldn't lose funding, Yellowrobe indicated he was appointed acting director.
Also hired were counselors Lois Red Elk and Tom Christian, both from Wolf Point. Adminstrative secretary is Lucy McGeshick.
Yellowrobe said the staff has been busy getting the center and offices ready, developing intake forms, working through job duties, working at obtaining educational assistance at the center so school time won't be lost. The staff is also supervising preparation of meals, Yellowrobe said.
All guards that had been working at the center will be kept on the job, Yellowrobe said.
Child Abuse
Awareness
Seminar
WOLF POINT � Child Sexual Abuse - A Community Problem awareness seminar will be held Friday, October 18 in the Wolf Point High School Auditorium from 8a.m. to 12 noon.
Panel guests will come from the Social Services, Mental Health and Law Enforcement agencies.
The following presenters are members of the High Plains Family Sexual Abuse Treatment Team: Robert E. Brown, Ed. D., Psychologist of Eastern Montana Mental Health Center. He is a therapist in the offender gft!pjJ?n<d family group. Another presenter is Shirley K. Brown, M.A., Glasgow District Supervisor Social and Rehabilitation Services and is a � therapist with the teen victim group and offender group.
Topics for discussion are: Overview of the problems of Child Sexual Abuse; Schools Response to the Sexually Abused Child; Impact of Child Sexual Abuse on the Child's School Performance; Characteristics of the Sexually Abused Child; and Dynamics of the Sexually Abusive Family.
There is no charge for the seminar. Anyone and everyone who has concerns about this problem is cordially invited.
The seminar is hosted by "Voices for Children." For more information call: Carolyn Rusche at 392-5706 or Diane Wetsit Weeks at 653-1331.
Oil & Gas Sale 85
POPLAR � Over 30 oil companies and individuals showed up at the Poplar Activity Center on Oct. 10 to bid on tribal and allotted land tracts for oil and gas leases in Tribal Oil and Gas Sale number 85.
A total of 27,551.96 acres of tribal lands were offered for bids, along with 42,332.14 acres of Ft. Peck allotted lands, and 279.75 acres of Turtle Mountain lands.
Bidding was sparse, with tract after tract not receiving any bids at all.
The Fort Peck Tribes had set a minimum bid of $25 an acre for a bonus bid. Allotted iands did not have a minimum bid set, so some allotted lands went for as low as $5 an acre.
Most leases, tribal and allotted, are for five years, with a 24 percent royalty rate.
Oil companies and individuals that were successful in bidding on lands must have surety bonds of varying amounts depending on the amount of acreage.
A complete report with amount of low and high bids and comments from the Tribal Chairman, BIA Superintendent and the Director of the Tribal Minerals Office will be in the next Wotanin.
Child Sexual Abuse in Native American Communities
-INSIDE--page 5
Some facts about the occurrence of sexual
abuse of American Indian children; information on causes and warning signs; and examples of treatment and prevention resources.
Cross-Country Champs
Eastern Class C Divisional X�Country champions the Frazer Bearcubs. L-r Ray Fisher, Tom Blount, Mike Adams. Joe Raining Bird, and Roger Fisher.
Women
to speak at Forum;
Chairman Candidates invited to debate
For the first time in the history of the Ft. Peck tribal government, tribal women have created a forum for tribal women candidates.
The purpose is to provide a time to meet the 22 women candidates, to create an atmosphere for the women to exchange views, to educate the general tribal population, and to promote recognition for women and their contributions.
The tribal women have also invited the three tribal chairman candidates to participate in a 3-way derate. Topics>bf debate wiB include: Water Rights, Land Use, Education, Law and Order, Economic Stability, Industry and etc.
The forum and debate has been scheduled to take place at the Poplar Cultural Center, on Sunday, October 20, 1985, from 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
The agenda is as follows:
10 to 11 a.m. - Candidate issues from first eleven women.
11 to 12 noon - Candidate issues from second eleven women.
12 to 1 p.m.�Lunch
1 to 2 p.m. � Questions & Answers Session'for the Wamvii candidates.
2 to 3 p.m. � Debate: Tribal Chairman candidates.
3 to 4 p.m. - Question & Answer Session for the three Tribal Chairman Candidates.
4 to 5 p.m. � Potluck Supper
According to one of the spokesperson from the women's group, tribal chairman candidates Leslie Fourstar has declined the invitation due to prir-- committments on Sunday. Candidate Ray White sent a message by word of mouth to the group declining to participate in the debate because he felt it would be "rigged", according *'- the spokesperson.
Chairman candidate Kenneth Ryan said he was approached last
(Debate �page 2)
"Walks Far" group donated Indian Poetry Collection
Child of Hope every child that la wrapped In an Indian blanket, every child that learns an Indian tradition, every child that knows an Indian word, becomes the hope and pride of Indians everywhere
WOLF POINT � A local group attempting to focus on child abuse on the reservation were recently donated a collection of poetry to sell to raise money for their cause.
Robert "Bob" Swanson, an Indian and a poet who lives on the west coast, donated a collection of his poetry to the "Walks Far" society to sell to help raise funds. Swanson, who is part Chippewa and from the Grand Portage Reservation in northeastern Minnesota, was put in contact with the local women's group by Hank Adams, a,Fort Peck tribal member. Swanson stopped in Wolf Point for several minutes on October 5 during a train stop and left the collection of poems with "Walks Far" coordinator Myrna Boyd Youngman. He told the group "I am only an Indian trying to help another Indian." He also donated a poem and sketch which will be used as "Walks Far" on their letterhead. ,
Swanson's writings, which have been published for the past 16 years, carry the message that it's alright to be an Indian, and that people are all the same no matter what color the skin.
His works are listed in several directory listings and library collections from Seattle, Washington to Princeton, New Jersey. He has
also received several grants and consultant contracts, given creative writing workshops for Indian schools and conferences, and given readings at Indian schools, centers and pow wows. He has appeared in television in art and Indian programming, and was on several Indian radio shows from Alaska to South Dakota and Oklahoma. He received press coverage in both non-Indian and Indian newspapers, including the Netherlands.
His works have also been published in anthologies in the United States and Canada, in magazines across the west coast, New York, New Mexico, Alaska and Oklahoma. He also has 8 books of his writing published since 1972.
It gives Swanson a personal satisfaction to be a positive influence on other American Indians. So important is this to him that he has taken to donating hundreds of volumes of his poetry to various Native American organizations.
"Walks Far" coordinator Mrs. Youngman said that Ft. Peck Community College instructor Greg Hirst will be helping the group promote the collection of
poems not only here on the Ft. Peck Reservation, but across the state.
The "Walks Far" organization is attempting to raise the educational awareness of the people, and raise funding for the group so that Indian children and famlies will be protected when they go before the tribal judicial system. The group feels that the lack of a tribal funded legal defense program and the tribal council's lack of interest in the groups attempts to protect and promote the best interests of the children and families can no longer be compromised.
"Walks Far" is now operating under the non-profit, tax exempt status of the National Survival of American Indian Association, which is directed by Hank Adams, a Ft. Peck Assiniboine, and headquartered in Olympia, Wa.
When the group first began their awareness and fund raising campaign in May of this year, they used money out of their own pockets to begin their promotional campaign, Mrs. Youngman said.
After putting together a promotional packet explaining their cause, Mrs. Youngman said they received their first donation of $1000.00 from Adams. She said this helped pay the expenses of running an office out of her home.
The group received no local support. She said they sent out 115 letters to all Indian owned businesses on the reservation, and 44 churches, seeking financial assistance. The only response received through their letter writing campaign was from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church of Poplar, Mrs. Youngman said.
On Sept. 25, Adams again
(Walks � page 2)

WOTANIN
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FIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID >PLAR, MONTANA PERMIT NO.
Fort 'Peck BBWO�ttfla
OWAPI
Poplar. Montana
Sioux/C V
VOL. 16 NO. 25
OCTOBER 17, 1985
Rehab Center naming, opening
WOLF POINT - The youth Rehab Center in Wolf Point will be dedicated with a new name on Thursday, October 17.
On Wednesday, October 16 the Tribal Executive Board went on record approving a new name for the center. It will be called the George Thompson Sr. Youth Center, named after the first juvenile judge on the Ft. Peck Reservation, according to Tribal Law and Order Committee Chairman Lyle Firemoon.
Firemoon said the Center's staff selected the name.
Acting director Calvin "Skip" Yellowrobe said the center officially started as a rehabilitation center for youth on October 2.
"We want to get out of detention immediately and work with the youth full time."
Yellowrobe said they have to work with the juvenile judge on changing the center from the confinement concept and stipulate treatment and counseling as soon as possible.
A meeting of various directors of human service programs was held October 2 at the center, located in Wolf Point north of U.S. highway 2 and Ft. Peck Housing Authority housing project.
Yellowrobe is acting director until a director is selected by the Tribal Board. The position is being advertised for the third time. To get the center operating so the
Per Cap payout date set
POPLAR�The Tribal Executive Board, in a regular meeting on Tuesay, October 15, set Monday, December 2 as the cutoff day for new enrollments to qualify for the December per capita payment.
The Tribal Board set the per capita payout date for Thursday, December 12.
On Dec. 2 all applications for enrollment that have been approved by the Tribes' Enrollment I Committee by that date will be able to receive a per cap in the amount of around $150.00 apiece.
All children born to tribal members who have not been enrolled-* into the Tribes should do so well
before December 2. Applications for enrollment can be picked up at the Enrollment Office located in the Tribal Building. The Tribes' Enrollment Committee, made up of Assiniboine and Sioux people, meet on all applications to determine eligibility. To be eligible to become an enrolled member of the Ft. Peck Tribes, the child must be one-fourth or more Assiniboine and/or Sioux blood born after the effective date of the Ordinance to any member of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, provided the child is a citizen of the United States at the time of the child's birth.
Absentee voting by local voters
POPLAR�The off reservation voters aren't the only ones who can vote by absentee ballot, said secretary-accountant Paula Stormy.
Those eligible voters who know � they will not be able to vote on Election Day can come to her office in the Tribal Office in Poplar and make a written request for an
absentee ballot.
Each request must contain a brief explanation why the voter cannot make it to the polls on Election Day.
Stormy will be taking requests for absentee ballots all next week, she said. Friday, October 25 is the last day to vote by absentee ballot at the tribal building, Stormy said.
POST 54 donates money to New Life Mission, which will be used to turn the electricity on in the building so it can be opened up to serve the people.
Mission gets donation
POPLAR � The New Life Mission was the recipient of a $300 donation from the Nathan Crazy Bull Post #54 on Friday, Oct. 11.
According to Eloise Garfield, chairwoman of the Mission's Board of Directors, the donation will be used to turn on the electrical power to the building located on Main street in Poplar.
The Mission was donated a two story building by Silas and Roberta Clincher, Poplar.
Ms. Garfield said the inside sheetrocking is completed on the first floor, and an electrician has been checking out the wiring.
Ms. Garfield said that mostly, New Life church people have been helping in the renovation of the building, including: John Garfield, Abe Chopper, Eldred Lambert, Junior Blackhoop, Marleen
Lambert, plus others that have dropped by.
The Mission is still looking for cash and food donations. A plumber's help is also needed, said Ms. Garfield, and bedding such as blankets, sheets, pillows and mattresses.
The Mission will be serving a Thanksgiving dinner to those in need, said Ms. Garfield.
"Most important", said Ms. Garfield, "is to have the church people to uphold the New Life Mission in their prayers."
The New Life Mission is the result of a dream of Ms. Garfield. She felt such a burden for the Indian alcoholics who live on the streets. She felt the need to have a place set up for the street people to sleep, eat, and a place to go to fellowship.
Tribes wouldn't lose funding, Yellowrobe indicated he was appointed acting director.
Also hired were counselors Lois Red Elk and Tom Christian, both from Wolf Point. Adminstrative secretary is Lucy McGeshick.
Yellowrobe said the staff has been busy getting the center and offices ready, developing intake forms, working through job duties, working at obtaining educational assistance at the center so school time won't be lost. The staff is also supervising preparation of meals, Yellowrobe said.
All guards that had been working at the center will be kept on the job, Yellowrobe said.
Child Abuse
Awareness
Seminar
WOLF POINT � Child Sexual Abuse - A Community Problem awareness seminar will be held Friday, October 18 in the Wolf Point High School Auditorium from 8a.m. to 12 noon.
Panel guests will come from the Social Services, Mental Health and Law Enforcement agencies.
The following presenters are members of the High Plains Family Sexual Abuse Treatment Team: Robert E. Brown, Ed. D., Psychologist of Eastern Montana Mental Health Center. He is a therapist in the offender gft!pjJ?nbf debate wiB include: Water Rights, Land Use, Education, Law and Order, Economic Stability, Industry and etc.
The forum and debate has been scheduled to take place at the Poplar Cultural Center, on Sunday, October 20, 1985, from 10:00a.m. to 5:00p.m.
The agenda is as follows:
10 to 11 a.m. - Candidate issues from first eleven women.
11 to 12 noon - Candidate issues from second eleven women.
12 to 1 p.m.�Lunch
1 to 2 p.m. � Questions & Answers Session'for the Wamvii candidates.
2 to 3 p.m. � Debate: Tribal Chairman candidates.
3 to 4 p.m. - Question & Answer Session for the three Tribal Chairman Candidates.
4 to 5 p.m. � Potluck Supper
According to one of the spokesperson from the women's group, tribal chairman candidates Leslie Fourstar has declined the invitation due to prir-- committments on Sunday. Candidate Ray White sent a message by word of mouth to the group declining to participate in the debate because he felt it would be "rigged", according *'- the spokesperson.
Chairman candidate Kenneth Ryan said he was approached last
(Debate �page 2)
"Walks Far" group donated Indian Poetry Collection
Child of Hope every child that la wrapped In an Indian blanket, every child that learns an Indian tradition, every child that knows an Indian word, becomes the hope and pride of Indians everywhere
WOLF POINT � A local group attempting to focus on child abuse on the reservation were recently donated a collection of poetry to sell to raise money for their cause.
Robert "Bob" Swanson, an Indian and a poet who lives on the west coast, donated a collection of his poetry to the "Walks Far" society to sell to help raise funds. Swanson, who is part Chippewa and from the Grand Portage Reservation in northeastern Minnesota, was put in contact with the local women's group by Hank Adams, a,Fort Peck tribal member. Swanson stopped in Wolf Point for several minutes on October 5 during a train stop and left the collection of poems with "Walks Far" coordinator Myrna Boyd Youngman. He told the group "I am only an Indian trying to help another Indian." He also donated a poem and sketch which will be used as "Walks Far" on their letterhead. ,
Swanson's writings, which have been published for the past 16 years, carry the message that it's alright to be an Indian, and that people are all the same no matter what color the skin.
His works are listed in several directory listings and library collections from Seattle, Washington to Princeton, New Jersey. He has
also received several grants and consultant contracts, given creative writing workshops for Indian schools and conferences, and given readings at Indian schools, centers and pow wows. He has appeared in television in art and Indian programming, and was on several Indian radio shows from Alaska to South Dakota and Oklahoma. He received press coverage in both non-Indian and Indian newspapers, including the Netherlands.
His works have also been published in anthologies in the United States and Canada, in magazines across the west coast, New York, New Mexico, Alaska and Oklahoma. He also has 8 books of his writing published since 1972.
It gives Swanson a personal satisfaction to be a positive influence on other American Indians. So important is this to him that he has taken to donating hundreds of volumes of his poetry to various Native American organizations.
"Walks Far" coordinator Mrs. Youngman said that Ft. Peck Community College instructor Greg Hirst will be helping the group promote the collection of
poems not only here on the Ft. Peck Reservation, but across the state.
The "Walks Far" organization is attempting to raise the educational awareness of the people, and raise funding for the group so that Indian children and famlies will be protected when they go before the tribal judicial system. The group feels that the lack of a tribal funded legal defense program and the tribal council's lack of interest in the groups attempts to protect and promote the best interests of the children and families can no longer be compromised.
"Walks Far" is now operating under the non-profit, tax exempt status of the National Survival of American Indian Association, which is directed by Hank Adams, a Ft. Peck Assiniboine, and headquartered in Olympia, Wa.
When the group first began their awareness and fund raising campaign in May of this year, they used money out of their own pockets to begin their promotional campaign, Mrs. Youngman said.
After putting together a promotional packet explaining their cause, Mrs. Youngman said they received their first donation of $1000.00 from Adams. She said this helped pay the expenses of running an office out of her home.
The group received no local support. She said they sent out 115 letters to all Indian owned businesses on the reservation, and 44 churches, seeking financial assistance. The only response received through their letter writing campaign was from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church of Poplar, Mrs. Youngman said.
On Sept. 25, Adams again
(Walks � page 2)